Jack Douglas said:
Josh Denver said:
To the guy saying 6000$ camera spares don't matter.
800mbps video of the MKII = 100mbs per second = 6GB per minute. 128GB Card (350$) holds 20 minutes.
For a normal standard of 5 hours worth of media for documentary/nature shooting,
3 cards give you an Hour at 950$.
5 hours and batteries needed to run the camera for 5 hours equals = funnily, 6000$ish
The 4K on the MKII is only suitable for very high end applications where 12K for a video rig is pretty good. But for us, who want to shoot comfortably at the awesome 60p quality of the MKII, believe it or not, on a doc shoot we need accessories that cost as much as the camera body.
I say shoot the messenger, that's not what I want to hear!
However, I can't imagine myself shooting a documentary, rather I'm interested in sharing clips much like I share photos of nature and wildlife with friends. Never the less, there is still the issue of the card expense and needing two or three. I have bought a spare battery already. What other items would be high on your list?
I've now shot a few small videos but not enough to gain much knowledge or insight but one thing for sure is that shooting with the 400 DO II X2 III requires more steadiness than I would initially have assumed compared to still shooting, even with a gimbal. I'll probably be dropping back to 560 in most cases. A woodpecker shot at 120p was interesting to watch. So much to learn - ugh.
Jack
Hello Jack! I was not expecting to revival this post, but its a nice entrance from Josh Denver and your´s.
Well, let´s see...If you just want to shoot ocasional films, short time, you don´t really need nothing extraordinary...Just a fast card (Cfast for 4k) and it´s good to go. If you start to shoot a lot of video, you end up with the need of extra external drives for storage, but a regular 2TB external drive would give you enough room for photos and videos. So responding to your question, you don´t need anything else than good cfast cards.
A trully different thing is to shoot a, let´s say....50 minutes documentary. And other trully different thing is to shoot it in 4k 60FPS. I am finishing a documentary i shoot in the arctic. I did lot of footage in 4k but other footrage was in 1080. I got myself 4tb of footage for a 45 mt documentary. In those days, i got plenty of CF cards, microSD cards, SD cards and lots of batteries....But....well, the price of this acessories was not too high...A different thing is the prices of cards and batteries for the 1dx mkII....but good news are coming, because i am finding some cards really less expensive, brands like transcend are going to make prices drop! And the batteries are so expensive....For the MKII a battery is about 140€. For this price i could get about 7 LP-E6 batteries for example....(third party), or 3 Canon batteries....So yeah....acessories are trully important!!
I am preparing a new job, this time in Africa, i will leave in late January. I am starting to buy new material, and i need to take with me, at least 2 extra batteries, and 4 Cfast cards: (two 64 GB and two 128GB), i need 4 more 2 TB external drives. Two for storage, and other two to backup (or to use if the two others get full). And even with this number of cards, i need always to get laptop near me, and automatically pass all the footage when i got 1 minute free time just to prevent i get all the cards full.
So of course the price of acessories does matter, and it was my initial doubt....to buy 1DX mkII and change everything ( because i got 5D mkIII and 7D mkII), or to keep in 5d line and buy the 5d mkIV. Well, i don´ regret for 1 second, that i decided fro the 1dx, what a camera! And 4k60fps....is just fantastic!!
Cheers